Edmund Crispin Quotes

The afternoon wore away.

Edmund Crispin

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• All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • God
  • Player
  • Prayer

• Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that." And I looked at my children and I said, "These are my poems, these are my stories."

  

  Olga Masters
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Giving
  • Persons
  • Liberty

• Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • Atmosphere
  • Churches
  • Factories

• Yeah, I know there's been all this talk this year especially about the 3-point shot and can you win shooting it. There's a lot of different styles that can work. You have to base it on your own personnel.

  

  Steve Kerr
  • Different
  • Style
  • Winning

• I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

  

  Arlene Dahl
  • Comedy
  • Star
  • Wanted

• Abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'

  

  Dawn Johnsen
  • Abortion
  • Pregnant
  • Restrictions

• Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Game
  • Life is
  • Played

• When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Sex
  • Teenager
  • Flattering

• But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Different
  • Character
  • Skin

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Holidays
  • Don't See
  • Nirvanas

• People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Song
  • Giving
  • Artist

• But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

  

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi
  • Evil
  • Glory
  • Tale

• Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Growing
  • Authority
  • Flammable Area

• I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • Knows
  • Looks

• When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Trying
  • Week
  • Seven

• I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • Drinking
  • Worst
  • Afternoon

• Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

  

  Susan Ertz
  • To Do
  • Immortality
  • Afternoon

• The afternoon wore away.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Afternoon
  • Wore